Introductory Post.

Hello and welcome to my blog.

My name is Georgia Pearce, I'm 17 years of age, candidate number 3132 and I am currently studying A2 Media Studies at Swakeleys Sixth Form as of September 2013.
Over the course of AS Media Studies, I have gained in depth knowledge of key terminology in the subjects of camera use and editing. Alongside this, I have gained useful and beneficial skills regarding the use of iMovie, where us students upload, edit, and present our current projects. This has opened up my vision into the many ways our projects can be transformed, using the iMovie program. Later on in the AS year, we covered the music industry and the contemporary issues it faces, such as piracy.
Another unit was covering TV Drama, gaining knowledge of the conventions of a TV Drama and representations in those dramas, such as sexuality, disability, age, gender, race and religion, being able to analyse them in a wide range of clips from poopular TV Dramas. This knowledge was then applied to the AS Media Studies exam.
We also completed a Media Portfolio, working in a group to complete a two minute clip consisting of the opening of a movie we created ourselves. The project I completed was alongside one other student, and we decided on a horror movie, progressing through planning stages such as a storyboard, treatment, trial shots and editing, completing the task to the best of our abilities.

Through this blog, I shall document the progression in my A2 Course on each unit covered, giving detailed accounts into the steps required to follow the journey to the final project. In this coursework, our advanced portfolio final projects will include a Music Video following conventions of the genre chosem, a digipak corresponding to artist chosen and a magazine advert advertising the digipak.

My group members include Faye Curry and Kala Hill, the links to their blogs are embedded below:

Kala: http://kalalouise4.blogspot.co.uk/
Faye: http://fayecurrymedia.blogspot.co.uk/